THE LATEST FIVE FROM DALKEY ARCHIVE’S “LIBRARY OF KOREA” SERIES

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THE LATEST FIVE FROM DALKEY ARCHIVE’S “LIBRARY OF KOREA” SERIES

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Article: http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-latest-five-from-dalkey-archives-library-of-korea-series?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20QuarterlyConversation%20%28Quarterly%20Conversation%29
Journal: The Quartely Conversation
Issued Date: March 16, 2015
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Language: English(English)
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Book: Scenes from the Enlightenment , The Square
Writer: Kim Namcheon , Choi In-hun , Choi In-ho , Ha ïlji , Park Min-gyu
Translator: Charles La Shure,Kim Seong-Kon

About the Author

Kim Namcheon
Birth : 1911 ~ 1953
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Namcheon
Family Name : Kim
Korean Name : 김남천
ISNI : 0000000082729276
Works : 11

Choi In-hun
Birth : 1936 ~ 2018
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : In-hun
Family Name : Choi
Korean Name : 최인훈
ISNI : 0000000116984436
Works : 46

Choi In-ho
Birth : 1945 ~ 2013
Occupation : Novelist, Screenwriter
First Name : In-ho
Family Name : Choi
Korean Name : 최인호
ISNI : 0000000120176677
Works : 50

Haïlji
Birth : Unknown ~ Unknown
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : ïlji
Family Name : Ha
Korean Name : 하일지
ISNI : 0000000050895042
Works : 8

Park Min-gyu
Birth : 1968 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Min-gyu
Family Name : Park
Korean Name : 박민규
ISNI : 0000000044221463
Works : 41

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Kim Namcheon, Scenes from the Enlightenment (translated by Charles LaShure) Choi In-hun, The Square (translated by Kim Seong-kon) Ch’oe In-ho, Another Man’s City, (translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton) Hailji, The Republic of Uzupis, (translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton) Park Min-gyu, Pavane for a Dead Princess, (translated by Amber Hyun Jung Kim) Despite South Korea having the kind of vibrant literary scene you’d expect from a country with one of the highest literacy rates in the world, we’re still not exactly inundated with English translations of South Korean fiction. Given this dearth, Dalkey Archive Press’s Library of Korean Literature series, twenty five titles published in collaboration with the Literary Translation Institute of Korea, was always going to be a welcome endeavor, though there are also niggling doubts: will the books stand on their own merits, or will they require some pre-existing knowledge of Korea to be properly appreciated? Is there some kind of cultural propaganda going on, a desire for “representativeness” that might have skewed the selection process?

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